Summary:
Analyst shall manage the day-to-day activities involving the establishment, management and oversight of electricity accounts and projects for the company. The responsibilities of this position shall include developing and maintaining contacts with utilities for setting-up, reviewing and coordinating utility services with a focus on electricity. This position requires the oversight and coordination of all third-party support services and organizations used to supply detailed and specialty utility services to the company. On an as-needed basis the incumbent shall provide electricity usage and cost analysis to management and trouble-shoot specific account errors.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Prospective candidate should be able to:
- Manage and coordinate utility service connections with all types of utility companies including account set-up, decommissioning, and orchestrating field activities and set-up schedules.
- Develop, grow, and maintain professional relationships with utility partners, internal customers, and other stakeholders.
- Demonstrate the capacity to lead and support large energy infrastructure projects as needed.
- Evaluate financial impacts of rate schedules and determine best fit for the application.
- Ensure compliance and accuracy of account data necessary for the establishment of new service locations, review data forms for accuracy and completeness.
- Review and critique project documents including service agreements, capital payments and financial surety.
- Become proficient with the in-house utility database, ETUC, for all utility services including electric, water, gas, and waste services.
- Understand the nuances of regulated and competitive power markets.
- Develop a high-level understanding of power designs and practices.
- Effectively communicate utility outages, construction repairs, project statuses, and general information to engaged personnel.
- Analyze utility bills for accuracy.
- Develop basic proficiency in dataPARC/PARCView.
- Communicate with ROW/easements to provide recommendations on power line routing.
- Assist with departmental trainings.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Ability to travel for internal/external meetings, as needed.
Required experience is commensurate with the selected job level:
- The Associate Specialist/Analyst level requires a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and 0-2 years of relevant job related experience.
- The Specialist/Analyst level requires a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and 2-5 years of relevant job related experience.
- The Senior Specialist/Analyst level requires a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and 5-8 years of relevant job related experience.
- The Lead Specialist/Analyst level requires a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and 8+ years of relevant job related experience.
Requirements:
Education and/or Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. The requirements for this position are listed below:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, finance, or STEM fields of study.
- Experience working in electrical cooperatives, municipalities, regulated and unregulated electric utilities and the unique attributes and constraints of each.
- Exposure to basic accounting, treasury functions, and information system.
- Develop data templates in spreadsheets and databases.
- Proficient in using MS Office Applications
- Travel is about 20%, candidate must be willing and able to travel by air or on extended road trips.
Working Conditions:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
- Usually, normal office working conditions.
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time due to prolonged periods of sitting or standing.
- Occasional overnight travel may be required.
- Occasional visits to industrial/manufacturing settings, which may include exposure to various materials and chemicals, as well as extreme temperature conditions and loud machinery, and require appropriate personal protective equipment.